Line-Array Beam-Forming And Monopulse Techniques Based on Slope Patterns of Nonsinusoidal Waveforms

Nonsinusoidal waveforms with the time variation of a rectangular pulse, received (or radiated) by a line array of sensors (or emitters), yield various antenna patterns which are very attractive for achieving good angular resolution. These antenna patterns, such as peakamplitude, peak-power, energy, and slope patterns, have been derived for various array lengths under a noiseless assumption. The slope patterns are the most attractive for angular resolution. In this paper, line-array beamforming techniques are developed to provide slope patterns for nonsinusoidal signals. The techniques employ sliding correlators (SC's) for suppressing the additive Gaussian noise present with the received signal, and pulse-shaping processors for determining the slope pattern. Computer simulation is done for deriving peak-amplitude and slope patterns for various array lengths. Also, a method for obtaining monopulse peakamplitude and slope patterns is presented.